Gaetan Sardou

Gaetan Sardou (15 July 1764-12 December 1836) was a colonel of the French Revolutionary Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Gaetan Sardou was born on 15 July 1764 in Orelans, Kingdom of France to a bourgeois family. Sardou enlisted in the French Army in 1782 at the age of 18 and joined the Grenadiers of Line, and after the 1789 French Revolution he was made a colonel of a regiment of the grenadiers of the French Revolutionary Wars. Sardou's regiment fought at the Battle of Sorbey in 1793, and Sardou was made a Major-General in 1797. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars at the head of a reserve army in Paris, France, and in 1803 he was made the Inspector-General of Parisian Militia, overseeing their recruitment and transfer to the Marshals of the Empire's armies.